An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion In The Sonnets Written By William Shakespeare

Nurafni, Rachmawati and Yusrita, Yanti (2023) An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion In The Sonnets Written By William Shakespeare. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

Sonnet is one of the creation who was written by William Shakespeare, where this sonnet is the object of this research and the topic of discussion is lexical cohesion. According to Halliday and Hassan (1976) lexical cohesion is devided into two types, namely Reiteration and Collocation. Lexical cohesion is very important to understand, because it can help someone to be able to understand the meaning of a sentence. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method by using the theory of Halliday and Hasan. This research is focused on finding each type of lexical cohesion contained in sonnets written by Shakespeare (repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, general word, and collocation) and also find out th e function of lexical cohesion. Based on the research that has been done, the authors found 50 data in this sonnet, which are as follows: the most common types of lexical cohesion found are antonymy, followed in second place by synonymy, collocation, repetition, meronymy, and lastly general word. In this study the authors could not find any hyponymy. This lexical cohesion becomes a bond that makes inter-sentence relations integrated in the text in sonnets and coherent keywords: lexical cohesion, types of lexical cohesion, functions of lexical cohesion

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